Scoring Your PSAT/NMSQT Practice Test - 2 - How to Calculate Scores

Sep 14, 2026

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Scoring Your PSAT/NMSQT Practice Test #2 provides step-by-step instructions to convert section raw scores into scaled scores and to compute the overall total score. It explains how to calculate the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section by combining ReadingTest and Writing/LanguageTest scores, then scaling the result. It also details the Math section scoring from No Calculator and Calculator questions, followed by the addition for the total score. Subscores on a 1–15 scale are derived using specified question sets and dedicated conversion tables.

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Scores Overview

How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores

Get Set Up

Get Section and Total Scores

Get Your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section Score

Get Your Math Section Score

Get Your Total Score

Get Subscores

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Scoring Your PSAT/NMSQT® Practice Test \#2 Congratulations on completing a PSAT/NMSQT® practice test. To score your test, use these instructions and the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this document. Scores Overview The redesigned PSAT/NMSQT will provide more information about your learning by reporting more scores than ever before. Each of the redesigned assessments (SAT®, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT™ 10, and PSAT™ 8/9) will report test scores and cross-test scores on a common scale. Additionally, subscores will be reported to provide additional diagnostic information to students, educators, and parents. For more details about scores, visit [collegereadiness.collegeboard.org](collegereadiness.collegeboard.org). The practice test you completed was written by the College Board’s Assessment Design & Development team using the same processes and review standards used when writing the actual PSAT/NMSQT. Everything from the layout of the page to the construction of the questions accurately reflects what you’ll see on test day. How to Calculate Your Practice Test Scores GET SET UP 􀁮 You’ll need the answer sheet that you bubbled in while taking the practice test. You’ll also need the conversion tables and answer key at the end of this document. 􀁯 Using the answer key, count up your total correct answers for each section. You may want to write the number of correct answers for each section at the bottom of that section in the answer key. 􀁰 Using your marked-up answer key and the conversion tables, follow the directions to get all of your scores. PSAT/NMSQT Practice Test \#2 Created 9/26/2016 1 GET SECTION AND TOTAL SCORES Your total score on the PSAT/NMSQT practice test is the sum of your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score and your Math Section score. To get your total score, you will convert what we call the “raw score” for each section — the number of questions you got right in that section — into the “scaled score” for that section, then calculate the total score. GET YOUR EVIDENCE-BASED READING AND WRITING SECTION SCORE Calculate your PSAT/NMSQT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score (it’s on a scale of 160–760) by first determining your ReadingTest score and your Writing and LanguageTest score. Here’s how: 􀁮 Count the number of correct answers you got on Section 1 (the ReadingTest) . There is no penalty for wrong answers. The number of correct answers is your raw score. 􀁯 Go to Raw Score ConversionTable 1: Section andTest Scores on page 7. Look in the “Raw Score” column for your raw score, and match it to the number in the “ReadingTest Score”column. 􀁰 Do the same with Section 2 to determine your Writing and LanguageTest score. 􀁱 Add your ReadingTest score to your Writing and LanguageTest score. 􀁲 Multiply that number by 10.This is your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score. EXAMPLE: Jennifer answered 29 of the 47 questions correctly on the PSAT/NMSQTReading Test and 20 of the 44 questions correctly on the PSAT/NMSQT Writing and Language Test. Using the table on page 7, she calculates that she received a PSAT/NMSQTReading Test score of 28 and a PSAT/NMSQT Writing and Language Test score of 22. She adds 28 to 22 (gets 50) and then multiplies by 10 to determine her PSAT/NMSQT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score of 500. GET YOUR MATH SECTION SCORE Calculate your PSAT/NMSQT Math Section score (it’s on a scale of 160–760) . 􀁮 Count the number of correct answers you got on Section 3 (MathTest — No Calculator) and Section 4 (MathTest — Calculator). There is no penalty for wrong answers. 􀁯 Add the number of correct answers you got on Section 3 (MathTest — No Calculator) and Section 4 (MathTest — Calculator) . 􀁰 Use Raw Score ConversionTable 1: Section andTest Scores to turn your raw score into your Math Section score. GET YOUR TOTAL SCORE Add your Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Section score to your Math Section score. The result is

FAQs

How do you calculate the PSAT/NMSQT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section score?

Count correct answers for Section 1 (ReadingTest) and Section 2 (Writing and LanguageTest), convert each raw score to its scaled section test score using the conversion table, add them, then multiply by 10.

How do you calculate the PSAT/NMSQT Math section score?

Count correct answers for Section 3 (MathTest—No Calculator) and Section 4 (MathTest—Calculator), add them to get the raw score, then use the conversion table to turn the raw score into the Math scaled score.

How are subscores calculated on the PSAT/NMSQT practice test?

Subscores are reported on a 1–15 scale. Add correct answers from the specific question sets listed for each subscore, then use the corresponding subscores conversion table to convert the raw subscore score.

Sep 14, 2026

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